So we’re going demand that the Texas Secretary of State to take a more direct, proactive role in helping register high school students across the state to vote. And we’re going to call, email, write postcards, and visit his office until he does.

Here’s what Secretary of State Rolando Pablos needs to do:

Distribute voter registration applications to all Texas high schools every year, instead of requiring high schools to to submit a written request for these applications themselves

Ensure that all Texas high schools offer their senior students who are eligible to vote an opportunity to register to vote by instituting a tracking process that would gauge the success of each high school’s implementation of the law

Enhance procedures that notify all Texas high schools of the need to comply with the law

Create trainings for all Texas high schools in order to ensure all legal duties and administrative rules are clear

Enforce state law to ensure that all Texas high schools are in full compliance and register their students to vote.

Directed by Greg Abbott, Pablos’ office already complied with the Trump’s sham “election integrity commission”. We simply refuse to accept further efforts by his office at voter suppression–in this case, by not complying with an existing law.

High school students are the future of our democracy. The Secretary of State must do more to ensure all eligible students are registered to vote.

Hello there, my name is ____ and I live in <YOUR ZIP CODE>. I’m calling today because the Secretary of State needs to take a more active role in helping register high school students across the state to vote.

Under Texas election code, high school principals, public and private, are required to register eligible students to vote two times a year. However, only fourteen percent of schools even requested voter registration forms, and zero private schools requested any. High schools are simply not complying with this law.

We are petitioning the Secretary of State’s office to automatically send voter registration cards to the high schools instead of high schools requesting the cards themselves. We are asking that the Secretary of State enhance procedures that notify all Texas high schools of the need to comply with this law. We are also asking that the Secretary of State’s office create trainings for all Texas high schools in order to ensure all legal duties and administrative rules are clear. And we’re demanding that the Secretary of State enforce state law to ensure that all Texas high schools are in full compliance and that they register their students to vote.

High school students are the future of our democracy. The Secretary of State must do more to ensure all eligible students are registered to vote.